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Critical thinking skills assignment Critical thinking skills assignment Students are required to analyse 10 articles from reliable sources, identify the key claims, determine whether the text is presenting a reason or an objection or both and evaluate the reasoning to determine if it is correct or not. An argument map is to be created for each article obeying all rules. Rubric Code: M446XW By pflauto Draft Public Rubric Subject: (General) Type: Assignment Grade Levels: (none)

Critical thinking skills assignment
	Poor 1 pts	Fair 2 pts	Excellent 3 pts
Type of argument	Poor Type of argument is not clear.	Fair Type of argument is identified in some articles.	Excellent Type of argument is identified in most articles.
Key claim	Poor Key claim is not correctly identified.	Fair Key claim is correctly identified in some articles.	Excellent Key claim is correctly identified in most articles.
Argument map	Poor Some hidden premises identified, some rules are not obeyed.	Fair Most hidden premises identified, most rules obeyed.	Excellent All hidden premises are identified, every simple argument is well-structured, obeying the Rabbit and Holding Hands Rules. Pyramid and MECE Rules are observed at all levels.
4 multi-layer arguments	Poor 1 type of multi-layer argument used	Fair 2-3 types of multi-layer arguments used	Excellent 4 types of multi-layer arguments used
Presentation to class	Poor	Fair	Excellent Thorough reasoning and analysis of article and argument map presented to class.